The problem Aether solves

Investing in meme coins is highly speculative and often driven by trends, sentiments, and social media hype. This makes it challenging for individual investors to make informed decisions and avoid potential losses. Aether simplifies this process by automating meme coin trading decisions using AI-driven sentiment analysis.
Here's how Aether addresses the challenges:

• Real-Time Sentiment Insights: The off-chain AI scrapes Twitter and news for mentions of popular meme coins, analyzing sentiment to gauge market mood.
• Autonomous Trading: The on-chain AI evaluates the sentiment score and executes buy or sell orders directly on the blockchain, ensuring transparency and speed.
• Risk Mitigation: By basing trades on data-driven insights rather than emotional impulses, Aether helps investors reduce the risk of losses from panic selling or uninformed buying.
• Ease of Use: Users simply connect their wallets, and Aether's intelligent agent takes care of the trading, saving time and effort.
  With Aether, meme coin enthusiasts can stay ahead of trends and make better decisions, all while leveraging the power of decentralized AI.

Challenges we ran into

Aptos does not have updated docs for python. Our team was most comfortable with python. So we ran into a lot of issues and were not implement it properly. We found the Agoric documentation quite hard to read. We tried to use the builder kit by etna and saw that it was empty. Okto servers were sending 400 errors even when using the template app provided in the docs and coudnt fix it. We tried to interact with the deployed smart contract that used router protocol - swap between eth sepolia testnet and solana testnet. The token of Solana was wrapped. So the token address wasnt being rendered correctly by the smart contract although the smart contract was deployed correctly. Withdraw() was working but the exchange() wasnt working. Also we got base testnet but there was something wrong with the faucet(sepolia testnet) so it wasnt working.